When the girls had grown older, he would offer their fathers a choice between taking their daughters back or leaving them to be supported at Zayd's expense.
[8]Guillaume calls this "a tradition of outstanding importance ... the only extant evidence of the influence of a monotheist on Muhammad by way of admonition.
"[7] Shia scholar, Ali al-Milani, questions the authenticity of this story, arguing Prophet Muhammad never ate haram food at all, nor could anyone's knowledge in religious rules ever be superior to him.
Milani believes "Prophet and Messenger of God" was undoubtedly superior to Zayd, or anyone else, in piety and knowledge of religion, both before and after his prophethood.
[12] In one variety, in Volume 7, Book 67, Hadith Number 407, Muhammad presents and offers the meat to Zayd, who refuses to eat any of it, while in Volume 5, Book 58, Hadith Number 169, the food is first presented to Muhammad, who rejects it, and then to Zayd, who also declines the food offer.
In the narrative reported in the fifth volume and the 58th book, both Muhammad and Zayd refuse eating any of the meat presented to them by a third party, due to its origin of slaughtering in the name of idols.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani also reports of several different versions or narrations of the story, in some proposing the possibility that the prophet of Islam never ate food originating from sacrificing to idols.
[10][11] Sayyed Ibn Tawus also questioned and criticized the narrative on Zayd's refusal in response to Muhammad's offering.
[2]: 102–103 [7] Finding it impossible to stay in Makkah, he left the Hijaaz and went as far as Mosul in the north of Iraq and from there southwest into Syria.
As he was passing through the territory of Lakhm on the southern border of Syria he was attacked by a group of nomad Arabs and killed before he could arrive at Meccah.
His son Sa'id bin Zayd was one of the first converts to Islam, and amongst the special group of 10 people that were promised Jannah in a famous hadith.